Notes and Essays -- John Brown

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White House officials say new security arrangements for Europe are needed to end the Ukraine war By Georgi Kantchev , Laurence Norman and Milàn Czerny Nov. 10, 2026 8:07 am ET 8 Gift unlocked article Listen (6 min) Delegates including Jared Kushner and Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan attend trilateral talks between the United States, Russia, and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi. Officials including President Trump’s envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff at Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi. Rula Rouhana/Reuters ABU DHABI—The Trump administration is putting a longstanding Russian demand at the heart of its latest push to end the war in Ukraine: renegotiating pan-European security in ways the Kremlin hopes will give it more influence in the region. Ahead of meetings in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday and Wednesday involving American, Russian, Ukrainian and European negotiators, U.S. officials said work on a ceasefire in Ukraine must proceed alongside discussions about Europe’s future ...

Opean officials and experts worry . Jared Kushner, center, President Donald Trump's son-in-law ,   and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff , Catherine Belton and Michael Birnbaum The Washington Post Yesterday [Nov 9] at 4:22 p.m. EST The Trump administration believes that the only way to reach a deal to end the war in Ukraine is to simultaneously make a broader agreement with Russia about Europe’s future security arrangements, officials said Monday, acceding to a long-standing Kremlin demand that the United States and its NATO allies had resisted. Tuesday’s talks in Abu Dhabi over the Russian war in Ukraine offer President Donald Trump his first chance to reassert his position as a global power broker following bruising Republican losses in last week’s midterm elections. But his negotiators — led by special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law — appear to have already bowed to a key Russian goal by opening a broader discussion of European security in the...

Opinion Western troops could help defend Ukraine in a future war without bringing it into the alliance. A German soldier during a military exercise near Paluknys, Lithuania on on Oct. 28 (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) November 9, 2026 at 7:30 a.m.  EST The Washington Post By Lise Howard and Michael O'Hanlon Lise Howard is a professor of political science at Georgetown University. Michael O’Hanlon holds the Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy at the Brookings Institution.   As Ukraine, Russia and the United States get ready for another round of negotiations in Abu Dhabi this week, Russia continues to pummel Ukrainian infrastructure, threatening to plunge its civilian population into darkness and cold, while Ukraine is realizing limited gains on the battlefield and continuing to hit refineries deep inside Russia. Although a limited ceasefire could emerge from the talks, a war-ending breakthrough seems unlikely. President Donald Trump is shifting his focus to foreign poli...